Protest and Survive
'Protest and Survive' was a slogan that peace campaigners adopted in the 1980s, after the Thatcher government published an absurd pamphlet entitled Protect and Survive, advising what to do in a nuclear attack.
During this project you will develop work that presents your opinion about an issue of your choice. An issue is a point of discussion, debate, or dispute, usually a matter of public concern. You will explore ceramic techniques and create a pot that presents your ideas about your chosen issue.
Your design will be informed by the work of Grayson Perry, Thomas Toft, other craftworkers and ceramicists.
During this project you will develop work that presents your opinion about an issue of your choice. An issue is a point of discussion, debate, or dispute, usually a matter of public concern. You will explore ceramic techniques and create a pot that presents your ideas about your chosen issue.
Your design will be informed by the work of Grayson Perry, Thomas Toft, other craftworkers and ceramicists.
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To print (several A3 copies)
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Task 2: Barbara Krugar
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Barbara Kruger inserts her artwork into magazines, on billboards, or on buses, co-opting media channels and sites of advertising for circulating art and starting critical and political discussions. Today, social media is a new system to infiltrate with art and ideas.
Participants are encouraged to snap pictures of their tag statements and share them on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook using #WhoseValues. Use the hashtag to explore responses from others interacting with the project from the Los Angeles area schools, the Paul Getty Museum, and beyond.
CHOOSE a tag, READ the question, and WRITE a response from your own perspective.`
TIE tags to a display installation
EXPLORE the other responses
SHARE with #WhoseValues
Participants are encouraged to snap pictures of their tag statements and share them on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook using #WhoseValues. Use the hashtag to explore responses from others interacting with the project from the Los Angeles area schools, the Paul Getty Museum, and beyond.
CHOOSE a tag, READ the question, and WRITE a response from your own perspective.`
TIE tags to a display installation
EXPLORE the other responses
SHARE with #WhoseValues
Task 3: Tom Phillips 'A Humument'
A Humument has been a work in progress since 1966 when artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version.
The book he found was an 1892 Victorian obscurity A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and Phillips transformed it into A Humument. The first version was printed by the Tetrad press in 1973, and Phillips has continued to transform it, revise it and develop it ever since.
The book he found was an 1892 Victorian obscurity A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and Phillips transformed it into A Humument. The first version was printed by the Tetrad press in 1973, and Phillips has continued to transform it, revise it and develop it ever since.
Phillips uses different techniques to cover the text he doesn't want us to read. This includes biro lines and patterns to elaborate oil paintings.He links the different words by carefully creating pathways between the lines. Sometimes the image reflects the narrative, more often than not it is an abstract composition.
Click the link below to listen to Phillips reading the whole of the sixth and final version of his text.
https://soundcloud.com/user-307986546/a-humument-a-treated-victorian-novel-1966-2016-read-by-tom-phillips
Task
Download this worksheet that asks students to recreate Tom Phillips style in two different ways.
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Task 4: BannersFor hundreds of years, organisations that have a marching tradition have made banners in order to identify themselves. This includes trade unions, friendly societies, temperance groups, co-operative societies, Orange orders, suffrage, women's and peace organisations and political parties, but also non-political organisations like churches, chapels and Sunday schools.
The banners with which we are most familiar today are those of the mass trade union movement. The trade societies evolved into the skilled workers' New Model Unions of the 1850s onwards. These unions' banners retained many of the same elements, such as the tools and processes of the trade, of the earlier trade societies. |
The women's suffrage movement was a large-scale propaganda campaign that relied heavily on processions and printed material to convey its message. Banners were used extensively. Unlike trade union banners, suffrage banners were embroidered, stencilled or appliquéd and were created from within the movement. |
In his 2015 Dismaland Bemusement Park, Banksy included a tent of banners produced by Ed Hall, a pensioner who has spent 40 years producing every major trade union banner from his garden shed. This piece was organised by Turner Prize winner, Jeremy Deller who has collaborated with Hall for over 15 years.
Jeremy Deller and his long-standing collaborator, Alan Kane also presented 'Steam Powered Internet Machine', which as Deller describes was inspired by 'thinking about something that connects the industrial revolution with the digital revolution.' Deller's colourful and evocative banners made with banner-maker Ed Hall were paraded through the streets of Manchester in 2009 as part of Procession, Deller's celebratory take on contemporary British life.
Artists have also appropriated banners; using their historical gravitas to raise the status of other issues. For example, the confessional applique pieces by Tracey Emin.
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Vases & Pots
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